Strength of Indigenous Science

We asked TORRES WEBB "what is science to you?" which lead to a conversation about fish traps & cosmic cycles, the harm terra nullius has done to Indigenous Science, the science of earth ovens, conciliation over reconciliation, Indigenous methodologies and climate change, a strength-based education, and DNA connections to the Earth!

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SHOWNOTES:

Tobacco Teachings:

- Often, when tobacco is offered or smoked, it is ceremonial tobacco. Which means, it is organic (without all those nasty chemicals you find in cigarettes) and therefore is nice to the land when you make an offering with it, or smoke it.

- Ceremonial tobacco also means it is grown and harvested “in a good way”, which means there is ceremony and reciprocity involved in the tobacco planting and harvesting.

- Tobacco is used in many communities as a sacred medicine, and as we learned here, even as far away as Torres Strait! With the similarities, there will be differences, so please be humble, and ask about the local processes for offering and harvesting.

Torres Strait/Australia FISH TRAPS:

- Fish Traps in Gulf of Capentaria: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/fight-to-save-ancient-indigenous-fish-traps/11396302

- Brewarina Fish Traps: https://www.mpra.com.au/brewarrina-fish-traps

- Woven Fish Traps: https://www.abc.net.au/education/ingenuity-of-indigenous-fish-traps/13953566

Canadian Indigenous FISH TRAPS:

- https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-ingenious-ancient-technology-concealed-in-the-shallows/

Treaty in Australia:

- https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/treaties#:~:text=A%20treaty%20is%20an%20international,international%20legal%20rights%20and%20obligations.

Treaty in Canada:

- https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028574/1529354437231

Terra Nullius (Empty Land):

- Article: https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-doctrine-of-discovery-and-terra-nullius

- Australia's Native Title: https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/native-title/

- Challenging Terra Nullius (Australia): https://www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/senior-secondary/cook-and-pacific/cook-legend-and-legacy/challenging-terra

Conciliation or Reconciliation:

- link: https://leapintothevoidwithme.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/reconciliation-or-conciliation-an-inuit-perspective/

- link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2018/dec/05/can-we-handle-the-truth-indigenous-australians-depend-on-it

Placenta and Land Connection:

- Placenta Garden (Australia) https://www.croakey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Wathaurong-placenta-garden.pdf

- Indigenous midwives (Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-restore-birthing-traditions-1.6884794

Indigenous Knowledge & Climate Change:

- Rising Sea Levels (Australia): https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/sea-level-rise-in-kowanyama

- Indg Communities & Climate Resilience (Canada): https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/11/28/indigenous-communities-forefront-climate-resilience/

- Indigenous Climate Hub: https://indigenousclimatehub.ca/effects-on-indigenous-communities/#:~:text=Indigenous%20communities%20are%20more%20likely,their%20abilities%20to%20access%20essential

Pemmican Preservation:

- I can't find the article Torres and I were talking about, I will keep searching. But here is one: https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14567.Pemmican.pdf

"The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars" (book) by Duane Hamacher

Thanks to BLUE MARBLE SPACE INSTITUTE of SCIENCE

and editor EMIL STARLIGHT! www.limelightmedia.ca

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